Name:  Compact Heat Sink
Type (Category):  Heat Sink (Core)
Reference:  Tactical Operations: Advanced Units & Equipment (p. 128)

Description:
Advanced heat distribution systems have long diminished the vicious cycle of waste heat accumulated by combat units and the energy required to contain the waste’s effects, but there has always been room for improvement. While double heat sinks are more efficient, they are space-consuming. Various innovations hope to fill the needs that still linger between double and regular heat sinks.

Inner Sphere researchers devised compact heat sink technology as a means of recovering the internal space lost by bulky systems like endo-steel internal structure or massive Gauss rifles. Unfortunately, in order to provide the increased internal space, the resulting smaller heat sinks used denser materials and thus grew heavier than their standard counterparts.

Game Rules:
Compact Heat Sinks function in the same manner as standard heat sinks for all units capable of carrying them. However, if a ’Mech should suffer a critical hit to a slot that contains 2 Compact Heat Sinks, both sinks are destroyed by the hit.

BattleMechs

Prototype Date:	3058
Production Date:	3079
Extinction Date:	—
Recovery Date:	—

WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT COMBAT AND CONSTRUCTION TABLE * See rules for this equipment

RULES LEVEL PROGRESSION TABLE
MegaMek Output → Critical Slot:  Compact Heat Sink
Record Sheet Output → Critical Slot:  Compact Heat Sink